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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Mayhem at the Marathon

Mayhem at the Marathon

Commentary by Sanford D. Horn

April 16, 2013

So the person of interest concerning the dual bombings at
the Boston Marathon is a Saudi national in the United States on a student visa.
Hmm. Where have we heard this story before?

Call me paranoid, but were not 15 of the 19
homicide-hijackers on September 11, 2001 that murdered nearly 3,000 innocent
people at the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and in a field in Shanksville, PA
also Saudis; most here with student visas?

When will we learn? Hoisted by our own petards, our
openness is becoming the death of America as we know it. The United States
prides herself on having a free and open society where we welcome legal
immigrants, students on temporary visas, and permanent residents on work visas.

Terrorists prefer to attack when it makes a statement.
What better statement than to draw blood in one of the birthplaces of democracy
– Boston, on Patriot’s Day - Boston Massacre 2.0.

However, before more American cities resemble Tel Aviv,
London, Madrid, and Mumbai, a genuine concerted effort must be undertaken to
reduce the chances of terror being meted out upon our nation and upon our American
people. Days of political correctness, turning a blind eye, and an
unwillingness to call a terrorist a terrorist must cease at once and not at the
traditional glacial speed of government.

While Congress continues arguing over how to make 12
million-plus illegal aliens legal, whether with or without citizenship, more
and more teem across our porous borders leading to greater economic and
national security detriment. Congress cannot dilly-dally any longer.

Democrats are guilty of seeking 12 million more voters
for their side, while Republicans are guilty of providing 12 million more low
wage workers to businesses that support the GOP financially and politically.
Democrats are afraid of alienating Hispanic voters, who, quite frankly, should
be offended that the Democrats support the legalization of people who broke the
law, while those Hispanic citizens followed the law, stood in line and achieved
their goal legally.

The more sieve-like the borders, the more likely enemies
of the United States will have increased opportunities to wreak havoc on its
citizens, economy, and way of life. If this is not unacceptable to all who
legally live in this country, they are traitors and should feel free to pack
their bags and live in Angola, China, Cuba, or North Korea.

In addition to sealing the borders, there should be an
immigration moratorium – permanent for some, temporary for others. Making that
decision should be easy. Any country voting against the United States in the
United Nations 50 percent or more should permanently be barred from having its
citizens enter the United States. For other countries, the moratorium could be
lifted after the borders are secured.

The same should be true regarding student visas and
foreign aid. The one area where I agreed with former presidential candidate and
retired Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) was his notion that all countries should
start at zero dollars and annually make their cases for foreign aid. Again, any
country voting against the US in the UN would automatically be disqualified.
Those same countries would be prohibited from sending their citizens to the US
on student visas.

Of the students qualified for entrance into the United
States via a student visa, they would be required to pay full price for their
tuition and expenses as well as file updates every semester with the Department
of Homeland Security. Failure to do so is causal for revocation of the student
visa and immediate deportation back to the student’s country of origin. When
the student visa expires, the student returns home to hopefully use his or her
education to improve his or her home country. This is win-win for all involved.

The cost for these plans can be absorbed by money saved
not cavalierly given to our enemies and a reduction in entitlement funding
given to Americans who neither deserve nor earned it.

While no plan is perfect, neither is political
correctness or turning a blind eye to the realities that the United States had
better get used to becoming a bloody battlefield rife with terrorist attacks.
Americans simply don’t have the stomach for it.

Americans don’t have the stomach to see the likes of Martin
Richard, an eight-year-old little boy killed while cheering on his father run
in the Boston Marathon. Government has the obligation to protect and defend its
borders and citizenry and little else. It needs to remember why it exists
before it no longer matters.